Lord Rennard

Christopher Rennard

Christopher Rennard

Party

Liberal Democrat

Address as

Lord Rennard

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 6717
Fax: 020 7219 2458
rennardc@parliament.uk
lordsoftheblog.net/category/lord-rennard

Biography

Lords career

Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for: Communities and Local Government 2009-10, Constitutional Affairs 2009-10

Councils, public bodies

Vice-President, Local Government Association 2011-

International bodies

Member: Inter-Parliamentary Union, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Rennard, of Wavertree in the County of Merseyside 1999

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Rennard & McTegart Ltd (company set up with wife providing management, campaign, communications and fund-raising consultancy with occasional fees also from speech making, broadcasting, writing and articles; all income from work done personally by the Member (including that for BHTA - see category 3) goes to Rennard & McTegart Ltd (see category 4(a))

3: Clients

The Member provides some public affairs advice to the British Healthcare Trade Association via the above company

4: Shareholdings (a)

100 per cent holding with wife in Rennard & McTegart Ltd

7: Overseas visits

Visit to Rome, 23-25 September 2011, as guest of the British Council to attend Pontignano Conference 2011 with British and Italian parliamentarians, business people, academics, journalists and other opinion formers; cost of travel, accommodation and meals met by British Council

Visit to Israel, 6-11 June 2012; costs of visit (except cost of flights) met by Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel; cost of flights met by Government of Israel

10: Non-financial interests (a)

Chair, Commission on the Big Society (on behalf of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations)

Director, British Healthcare Trades Association

10: Non-financial interests (b)

Member, Advisory Board of Magna Carta Institute (Brunel University)

Vice President, Local Government Association

10: Non-financial interests (d)

Trustee and Director, Action on Smoking and Health

Director, Make Votes Count